rational
Issue #198: Full List
9 January, 2022 // View curated list
Money matters (especially if you are good at math): Study shows income and income satiation points differ depending on objective numeracy. // journals.plos.org
# Coronavirus
Omicron Post #12 // Zvi, 14 min
Covid 1/6/22: The Blip // Zvi, 31 min
Omicron Post #13: Outlook // Zvi, 14 min
A common misconception about the evolution of viruses // adrian-arellano-davin, 1 min
How to End a Pandemic // mikkel-wilson, 9 min
What explains the excess mortality? // ChristianKl, 1 min
Omicron variolation? // BossSleepy, 1 min
Omicron in Biobot // jkaufman, 1 min
How the response to a pandemic affecting mainly children would look like? // adrian-arellano-davin, 1 min
Covid risk of staying at a hotel // NormanPerlmutter, 1 min
How reasonable are concerns about asking for patents to be lifted for COVID-19 vaccines? // ChristianKl, 1 min
How much, and on what margins, should we be rethinking quarantine protocols? // jmh, 3 min
Omicron Origins—Omicron Optimism // Josh Mitteldorf, 7 min
# Instrumental
Rational Breaks: a better way to work // bfinn, 12 min Favorite
How To Raise Others’ Aspirations in 17 Easy Steps // cmessinger, 1 min
Can you learn (music) efficiently by grinding? // nicole-dieker, 1 min
The best curriculum for every goal // BossSleepy, 1 min
P(C) vs. NP(C) // nicole-dieker, 4 min
Let's Stop Pretending to Be Original Thinkers // michael-flood-1, 21 min
# Epistemic
The possibility of no good amazing forecasters // johannes-c-mayer, 1 min
Causality and determinism in social science - An investigation using Pearl's causal ladder // tailcalled, 10 min
Reductionism is not the ultimate tool for causal inference // tailcalled, 4 min
Flinches // Bluestorm_321, 2 min
What is a Counterfactual: An Elementary Introduction to the Causal Hierarchy // Darmani, 6 min
How would you explain Bayesian thinking to a ten year old? // lumenwrites, 1 min
Counterfactuals from ensembles of peers // david-johnston, 8 min
Counterfactuals from symmetry // david-johnston, 9 min
# Ai
Brain Efficiency: Much More than You Wanted to Know // jacob_cannell, 34 min Favorite
More Is Different for AI // jsteinhardt, 3 min
You can't understand human agency without understanding amoeba agency // shminux, 1 min
Reader-generated Essays // henrik-karlsson, 7 min
Shadows Of The Coming Race (1879) // Capybasilisk, 8 min
Importance of foresight evaluations within ELK // Jonathan Uesato, 11 min
Goal-directedness: my baseline beliefs // Morgan_Rogers, 3 min
Satisf-AI: A Route to Reducing Risks From AI // harsimony, 5 min
# Meta-ethics
Why maximize human life? // lise, 1 min
# Anthropic
Each reference class has its own end // avturchin, 2 min
# Decision theory
Signaling isn't about signaling, it's about Goodhart // Valentine, 10 min
Two ominous charts on the financial markets // arunto, 2 min
Newcomb's Problem as an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma // daniel-amdurer, 1 min
Your Preferences // peter-loksa, 1 min
A Reaction to Wolfgang Schwarz's "On Functional Decision Theory" // Heighn, 9 min
# Math and cs
D?'s Spiking Network // lsusr, 4 min
Some thoughts about an estimator by Taleb // paladim, 2 min
Fun with bitstrings and bijections // adam-scherlis, 1 min
# Books
[Book Review]: The Bonobo and the Atheist by Frans De Waal // Jemist, 16 min
# Ea
Animal welfare EA and personal dietary options // RobbBB, 3 min
# Relationships
Sex Versus // Jacobian, 3 min
10 Reasons You’re Lazy About Dating // Jacobian, 8 min
Consensual Hostility // Jacobian, 4 min
Selfless Dating // Jacobian, 8 min
# Community
An Observation of Vavilov Day // pktechgirl, 3 min
Scott Alexander 2021 Predictions: Market Prices - Resolution // SimonM, 1 min
AMA: I was unschooled for most of my childhood, then voluntarily chose to leave to go to a large public high school. // iceplant, 1 min
The Speed of Rumor // NancyLebovitz, 1 min
What I'm about // Flaglandbase, 2 min
# Misc
Training Rationality through Deckbuilders // vitaliya, 2 min
How do you turn an idea into a reality? (warning: involves politics) // nicole-dieker, 1 min
Lewis Carroll Invented Retroactive Public Goods Funding In 1894 // Scott Alexander, 2 min
# Podcasts
#67 Classic episode - David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness // , 282 min
# Rational fiction
Lateral Thinking (AI safety HPMOR fanfic) // SlytherinsMonster, 6 min
Movie review: Don't Look Up // samuel-marks, 13 min
Luna Lovegood and the Fidelius Curse - Part 4 // lsusr, 1 min
Highlights From The Comments On "Don't Look Up" // Scott Alexander, 10 min
Movie Review: Don't Look Up // Scott Alexander, 13 min
# Videos of the week
The Power of Numeric Literacy // UO SOJC, 2 min